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# Disabling desktop push notifications on Windows laptops

To prevent students from being constantly distracted by notifications on their Windows laptop, these can be disabled. This is easy to do via the Intune admin centre.

In the Intune admin centre, choose:

|| Devices > Windows > Configuration profiles > ➕ Create > ➕ New policy
Select **Windows 10 and later** as the **Platform**. Select **Settings catalog** as the **Profile type** and click **Create** at the bottom.

Give the new profile a name, e.g. "No notifications", and click **Next** at the bottom.

Click **+ Add settings**
Type "notifications" in the search box and click **Search**.
Scroll down and click **Google Google Chrome Content settings**. 6 results appear; tick the bottom 2:
✅ **Default notification setting**
✅ **Default notification settinge (User)**

Now click **Microsoft Edge\\Content settings**. About 10 results appear; now tick the bottom 4:
✅ **Choose whether users can receive customized background images and text, suggestions, notifications, and tips for Microsoft services**
✅ **Choose whether users can receive customized background images and text, suggestions, notifications, and tips for Microsoft services (User)**
✅ **Default notification setting**
✅ **Default notification setting (User)**

Now click the cross at the top right of the Search button.

Set all the toggles behind **Default notification settings** to **Enabled** and choose **Don't allow any site to show desktop notifications** in the selection boxes.
Leave the toggles behind **Choose wether users can receive...** set to **Disabled**.

Click **Next** at the bottom and click **Next** at Scope tags as well

Under "Included groups", click **Add groups** and select the student group(s).

Click **Next**, check the settings and click **Create**

Intune will now distribute this setting to the student accounts. From now on, no desktop notifications or Microsoft Spotlight messages will appear for those accounts.